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bicular-ovate when spread out; wings moderately inflated, ob- 

 liquely obovate when spread out; keel moderately curved, glab- 

 rous: pods i cm. long, 5 mm. wide, 3 or 4-seeded: seeds (Rhyo- 

 lite plant) oblique-rounded, 3 mm. across, not flattened, brown- 

 ish marbled as well as covered with innumerable black dots. 



The above description is partly quoted from the original 

 and partly drawn from the type, which is Jones 50640, collected 

 at Mica Springs, Nevada, April 14, 1894. The type itself is in 

 the U. S. National Herbarium, on sheet 365876. Just where 

 Mica Springs is located I do not know, as no county is given, 

 and the name is not found on any of our maps, but it is presum- 

 ably somewhere in southern Nevada. Besides the type I have 

 seen specimens from but one other place in Nevada, namely, at 

 Rhyolite, Nye county, where I collected it in fruit May 18, 1909, 

 under no. 9681. 



L. micensis was originally compared with L. brevicaulis, a 

 species belonging to the subgenus Platycarpos, and in no wise 

 related; also in a lesser degree with L. arizonicus, which is in- 

 deed in the subgenus Lupinus, but bears little or no resemblance 



Figure 1. Floral parts of /.. tnu ensis, enlarged. 



